Dongfang Cheng

4.3k total citations · 6 hit papers
66 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Dongfang Cheng is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Catalysis and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Dongfang Cheng has authored 66 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 33 papers in Catalysis and 23 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Dongfang Cheng's work include CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (41 papers), Ionic liquids properties and applications (27 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (19 papers). Dongfang Cheng is often cited by papers focused on CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (41 papers), Ionic liquids properties and applications (27 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (19 papers). Dongfang Cheng collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Singapore. Dongfang Cheng's co-authors include Jinlong Gong, Zhi‐Jian Zhao, Tuo Wang, Gong Zhang, Sihang Liu, Lulu Li, Wenjin Zhu, Felix Studt, Shenjun Zha and Graeme Henkelman and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Chemical Society Reviews and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Dongfang Cheng

62 papers receiving 3.4k citations

Hit Papers

Theory-guided design of catalytic materials using scaling... 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 2020 2021 2023 2023 100 200 300 400 500
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Theory-guided design of catalytic materials using scaling relationships and reactivity descriptors
    2019 510 citations Zhi‐Jian Zhao, Sihang Liu et al. Nature Reviews Materials profile →
  2. Grain-Boundary-Rich Copper for Efficient Solar-Driven Electrochemical CO2 Reduction to Ethylene and Ethanol
    2020 377 citations Zhiqiang Chen, Tuo Wang et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  3. Controllable Cu0‐Cu+ Sites for Electrocatalytic Reduction of Carbon Dioxide
    2021 315 citations Xintong Yuan, Sai Chen et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
  4. Modulation of *CHxO Adsorption to Facilitate Electrocatalytic Reduction of CO2 to CH4 over Cu-Based Catalysts
    2023 186 citations Jing Zhao, Peng Zhang et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  5. Properties of Poly (Lactic-co-Glycolic Acid) and Progress of Poly (Lactic-co-Glycolic Acid)-Based Biodegradable Materials in Biomedical Research
    2023 126 citations Dongfang Cheng et al. profile →
  6. Structure Sensitivity and Catalyst Restructuring for CO2 Electro-reduction on Copper
    2025 29 citations Dongfang Cheng, Ziyang Wei et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Dongfang Cheng China 26 2.7k 1.7k 1.3k 829 351 66 3.4k
Abhijit Dutta Switzerland 32 2.7k 1.0× 1.4k 0.9× 1.1k 0.9× 1.0k 1.3× 342 1.0× 77 3.3k
Xianbiao Fu China 25 2.6k 1.0× 2.0k 1.2× 1.5k 1.2× 869 1.0× 163 0.5× 48 3.7k
Xiaorong Zhu China 30 3.8k 1.4× 1.9k 1.1× 2.1k 1.6× 1.6k 1.9× 246 0.7× 87 5.0k
Xiaolan Xue China 26 2.1k 0.8× 1.1k 0.7× 1.7k 1.3× 1.4k 1.7× 195 0.6× 59 3.4k
Zhili Wang China 33 1.7k 0.6× 999 0.6× 2.3k 1.8× 587 0.7× 1.1k 3.1× 72 3.5k
Qiufang Gong China 15 2.3k 0.9× 451 0.3× 1.3k 1.0× 1.6k 2.0× 87 0.2× 22 3.2k
Zhengyuan Li China 22 1.3k 0.5× 784 0.5× 617 0.5× 394 0.5× 200 0.6× 57 1.9k
Hao Cheng China 25 1.2k 0.5× 522 0.3× 999 0.8× 929 1.1× 63 0.2× 53 2.4k
Zhonglong Zhao China 27 3.8k 1.4× 618 0.4× 1.5k 1.2× 2.5k 3.0× 91 0.3× 49 4.2k
Minghao Xie United States 31 2.4k 0.9× 1.1k 0.7× 1.3k 1.0× 1.3k 1.5× 46 0.1× 76 3.6k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Cheng, Dongfang, et al.. (2026). Bioadaptive Ni single atoms unlock high rate microbial electrosynthesis of isopropanol from CO2. Nature Communications. 17(1). 1639–1639.
2.
Zhong, Dazhong, Qiang Fang, Peng Chen, et al.. (2025). Selective Electrochemical CO 2 Reduction to Ethylene or Ethanol via Tuning *OH Adsorption. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(32). e202501773–e202501773. 19 indexed citations
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Kim∥, Jung Tae, Dongfang Cheng, Xintong Yuan, et al.. (2025). Localized Eutectic Electrolytes for Stable Aqueous Zinc-Ion Batteries. ACS Energy Letters. 10(6). 2924–2933. 11 indexed citations
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Cheng, Dongfang, Ziyang Wei, & Philippe Sautet. (2025). Elucidating the Proton Source for CO 2 Electro-Reduction on Cu(100) Using Many-Body Perturbation Theory. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(13). 10954–10965. 7 indexed citations
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Li, Lulu, et al.. (2024). Theoretical modulation of Cu-based ternary alloys for the selectivity of electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide. Chemical Engineering Science. 298. 120311–120311. 2 indexed citations
6.
Cheng, Dongfang, et al.. (2024). Electroreduction of Captured CO2 on Silver Catalysts: Influence of the Capture Agent and Proton Source. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(30). 20728–20741. 18 indexed citations
7.
Liu, Wandong, et al.. (2023). Research on a high-precision extraction algorithm for aircraft skin seam features. Measurement. 211. 112626–112626. 4 indexed citations
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Cheng, Dongfang, Ziyang Wei, Zisheng Zhang, et al.. (2023). Restructuring and Activation of Cu(111) under Electrocatalytic Reduction Conditions. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62(20). e202218575–e202218575. 35 indexed citations
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Cheng, Dongfang, Gong Zhang, Lulu Li, et al.. (2023). Guiding catalytic CO 2 reduction to ethanol with copper grain boundaries. Chemical Science. 14(29). 7966–7972. 22 indexed citations
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Fu, Xiaoyang, Dongfang Cheng, Chengzhang Wan, et al.. (2023). Bifunctional Ultrathin RhRu0.5‐Alloy Nanowire Electrocatalysts for Hydrazine‐Assisted Water Splitting. Advanced Materials. 35(23). e2301533–e2301533. 75 indexed citations
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Shi, Xiangcheng, Dongfang Cheng, Gong Zhang, et al.. (2023). Accessing complex reconstructed material structures with hybrid global optimization accelerated via on-the-fly machine learning. Chemical Science. 14(33). 8777–8784. 6 indexed citations
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Zhao, Jing, Peng Zhang, Tenghui Yuan, et al.. (2023). Modulation of *CHxO Adsorption to Facilitate Electrocatalytic Reduction of CO2 to CH4 over Cu-Based Catalysts. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(12). 6622–6627. 186 indexed citations breakdown →
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Yuan, Tenghui, Tuo Wang, Gong Zhang, et al.. (2022). The effect of specific adsorption of halide ions on electrochemical CO2 reduction. Chemical Science. 13(27). 8117–8123. 50 indexed citations
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Zhang, Gong, Tuo Wang, Mengmeng Zhang, et al.. (2022). Selective CO2 electroreduction to methanol via enhanced oxygen bonding. Nature Communications. 13(1). 80 indexed citations
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Zhen, Shiyu, Gong Zhang, Dongfang Cheng, et al.. (2022). Nature of the Active Sites of Copper Zinc Catalysts for Carbon Dioxide Electroreduction. Angewandte Chemie. 134(22). 1 indexed citations
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Cheng, Dongfang, Zhi‐Jian Zhao, Gong Zhang, et al.. (2021). The nature of active sites for carbon dioxide electroreduction over oxide-derived copper catalysts. Nature Communications. 12(1). 395–395. 259 indexed citations
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Yuan, Xintong, Sai Chen, Dongfang Cheng, et al.. (2021). Controllable Cu0‐Cu+ Sites for Electrocatalytic Reduction of Carbon Dioxide. Angewandte Chemie. 133(28). 15472–15475. 51 indexed citations
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Chen, Zhiqiang, Tuo Wang, Bin Liu, et al.. (2020). Grain-Boundary-Rich Copper for Efficient Solar-Driven Electrochemical CO2 Reduction to Ethylene and Ethanol. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 142(15). 6878–6883. 377 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zhong, Dazhong, Zhi‐Jian Zhao, Qiang Zhao, et al.. (2020). Coupling of Cu(100) and (110) Facets Promotes Carbon Dioxide Conversion to Hydrocarbons and Alcohols. Angewandte Chemie. 133(9). 4929–4935. 42 indexed citations
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Zhao, Zhi‐Jian, Sihang Liu, Shenjun Zha, et al.. (2020). Publisher Correction: Theory-guided design of catalytic materials using scaling relationships and reactivity descriptors. Nature Reviews Materials. 7(8). 671–671. 2 indexed citations

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